[ Illustration: First Image depicts Satan's character symbolically -- the way he would appear to God (as evil and brutish) in his first appearance before God in the previous chapter and in his second appearance in this chapter. The Second Image shows Satan afflicting Job with boils. The Third Image shows the wife of Job urging him to repudiate God. The Fourth Image depicts the arrival of Job's friends and their anguish for Job. The Fifth Image shows Job and his friends during their week of silence; in the background is Elihu, who remains silent until the end of the book. ]

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Explanation:Job 2 describes the last affliction of Job -- the loss of his physical well-being. And it describes the reaction of Job, of Job's wife, and of Job's friends.
Satan came before God a second time to accuse Job. On this occasion he said that if God brought bodily suffering upon Job that Job would curse God to his face. So the LORD said, "Behold, he is in your hand; but save his life" (1-6).
So Satan struck Job with boils from the sole of his foot to the top of his head. And Job took a pottery fragment and scraped himself and sat down among the ashes (7-8).
Job's wife advised him to curse God and die. But Job said that she spoke like one of the foolish women. And he said, "What? shall we receive good at the hand of God, and shall we not receive evil?" So, once again, Job did not sin with his lips (9-10).
When Job's three friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, heard of Job's sufferings they came to mourn with him and to comfort him. When they saw him, they did not recognize him. And they wept greatly, they tore their clothing, they sprinkled dust on their heads. And they sat with him on the ground. And, for a week, no one spoke a word to him, because his grief was so great (11-13).

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